302 The Course, the Camp, the Chase 



the time to pick up the grain with his mouth. Some 

 Windsor chairs used then to be set back to back, and 

 with great flaps of his arms, he would come hopping 

 along, and jump over them with ease. He could just 

 manage to get over four of them, but five always brought 

 him to grief ; and yet, with the most undaunted courage, 

 he would turn round and essay them again. When a 

 leaping bar was erected, he would " fly " over an extra- 

 ordinary height, always from the same almost sitting 

 posture, and he could clear more than five feet, and thus 

 it was that the idea was suggested of trying him at the 

 athletic sports. The difficulties in the way were, however, 

 so very obvious, that the notion was abandoned almost 

 as soon as it was started. 



There was one " character " that was really awful to 

 look upon, and that was when the bump of " murder " was 

 touched, though governed by touching at the same time 

 the bump of " caution." The instantaneous change of 

 countenance that followed — the most fiendish face that 

 could almost be imagined that he assumed — was indeed 

 extraordinary, and fearful to see. The sole idea that then 

 possessed the unhappy " subject " seemed to be to make 

 away with the man that he undoubtedly regarded as his 

 tormentor. Snatching up something in the form of a 

 knife, he would commence to sharpen it, continually 

 feeling the edge and the point, and glaring all the time 

 at the mesmerist. Suddenly, without the slightest warn- 

 ing, he would leap upon him, and endeavour to stab him 

 with all his force, and yet that " bump of caution " in- 

 variably prevented him from actually striking his victim. 

 Working himself into a frenzy, foaming at the mouth, and 

 endeavouring with all his might to strike the knife into 



